Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…

What is the final destination of the watchman's corporeal remains?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: final destination · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 279 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman flies to the moon in a wink, and his body dies on the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 destination	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 destination	amod
5	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 remains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 watchman	det
8	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remains	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 watchman	case
10	corporeal	corporeal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 remains	amod
11	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 destination	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the final destination of the watchman's corporeal remains						tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The hospital, where they are carried in the morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hospital	det
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 carried	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	aux:pass
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · passive		they			morning	the hospital obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

The patrol station on East Street.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 station	det
2	patrol	patrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 station	compound
3	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Street	case
5	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Street	compound
6	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 station	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 station	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The hospital, where the patrol carries them each morning after the long night shift.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hospital	det
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hospital	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 carries	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 patrol	det
6	patrol	patrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carries	nsubj
7	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hospital	acl:relcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carries	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carries	obl:unmarked
11	after	after	ADP	_	15 shift	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shift	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shift	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shift	compound
15	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carries	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hospital	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the patrol	them = they			after the long night shift; morning		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

The hospital, where the doctors will examine them carefully in the morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hospital	det
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 examine	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 examine	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 examine	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctors	det
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 examine	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 examine	aux
8	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 examine	obj
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 examine	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 examine	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 examine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	examine	future	the hospital	doctors = doctor			morning	carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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